Blogging is Where I'm a Viking

Hello blog. I haven't posted on you lately because I was disappointed in your statistics. No one reads you. I've concluded that this is probably a good thing, though, so I'm over it. I don't write about anything interesting here, anyway. Here's what I've been up to:

Not much. The entire weekend was spent uploading cds to iTunes. Basically non-stop. I'm maybe 20% done. I've got four days worth of music to listen to now, at least. I'm being a real freak about organizing it, too. Cover artwork for everything. All words in song titles are capitalized (This is hard for me to do but I was having a hard time with what should and shouldn't be capitalized. I know the general rules but these things are fairly subjective and I decided it was just easier to capitalize all words unless it's specifically different on the back of the album [Who says I don't write about interesting things?].) All cds must have the original release date year. And don't get me started on the genres. I began with the notion that I wouldn't use any customized genre names and would only use what iTunes has available. Well, that last for a while but then I went back and changed 20 some albums because it was driving me nuts. I embrace the term "alternative" but I wonder if I have a different view of what all it entails than most. For example, I would mark Daydream Nation as alternative. Same with You're Living All Over Me. Same with Nevermind, Siamese Dream, and American Thighs. But I would mark Bee Thousand as indie. Does anyone think that's weird? I think it's pretty fair. I'm trying to stay general with it. What about a band like The Handsome Family? I gave in and put them as alt country, but I really don't know what the hell they are. Is Jawbreaker punk? Yes, but that almost seems too general.

There has been a great debate started on a messageboard I frequent regarding Ralph Wiggum. Someone tells him to go to sleep and he responds, "Oh, boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!" I understood it in the less popular way and everyone is acting like myself and a few other highly intelligent folk are in-fucking-sane for understanding it in anything other than the most literal way possible. The literal way isn't funny, though. Anyway, apparently metafliter has picked up on it and I even heard that it was mentioned on "The Best Show on WFMU" (I have not listened to the most recent episode yet). We're hoping that The Onion's AV Club will settle the debate by contacting the writer or something, but who knows. I found it funny the way I originally understood the joke and I find it unfunny to think that he is just dreaming of being a viking. I've concluded that I don't really care what the intention way anymore because I found it funny one way and I'm sticking to it. I think your understanding of the joke says a lot about a person's personality type.


That movie review I wrote for the paper two weeks ago? They ran it this week. How silly. Apparently my former high school teacher asked the editor guy about it and he claimed that he never received it. I think my former teacher strong-armed him. She's got pull in this 'berg. He then e-mailed me saying such so I sent it to him again and he wrote back something about coming down and getting my picture taken which I completely ignored. Anyway, they ran the review. The editing wasn't so hot, but it was only two things and since I only sent in the review because I was told that if I'm going to complain about the quality of the entertainment section I should write something for it myself (this was told to me by the editor, mind you), I didn't really care very much. Anyway, I thought that was funny. And kind of stupid. At least I didn't have my ugly mug next to it, only my pretty name.

I know no one reads this, but if you come across it I would like your opinions on my iTunes genres and your understanding of what Ralph Wiggum means when he says, "Oh, boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!"